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Monday, June 8, 2015

Ordinance Day

I know it's been quite awhile since I have posted here, but I need a place to share the wonderful day we had on Saturday, June 6, 2015. We had the opportunity to see my youngest niece Cambree be baptized. A fun thing about it is I was baptized in that same dress almost 40 years ago. I was the first to use it as my baptism dress and she was the last. There have been 19 girls use that dress to be baptized or confirmed in. All of my sisters and my nieces and my own daughters have used THE BAPTISM dress that my mom made for me 40 years ago.

Later that same day I had the priviledge to be the escort for Cammie as she received her endowment in the Provo temple. Oh course her dad Kevin was there. Both sets of grandparents were there as well as her Aunts Janice, Frances and Sarah. Also her uncle Glen and many of her friends attended. A fun thing was her roommate Erin and her new husband Chase were able to be the witness couple. Our good friends Lori and Nathan Criman were also able to come. What an amazing experience.

I had a little aha moment when the matron was giving instruction to the 3 girls who had just received the inititory ordinance. The prophecy that we can not be made perfect without the dead, nor can they be made perfect without us. I always understood that they needed us to do their ordinances for them, and I always thought that they saved us by letting us serve them, but I realized as the matron spoke that the reason we need them is that we wouldn't be able to go back and have that temple experience again if we didn't go for them. The way we learn about the temple ordinances and covenants is by going for the dead, so by serving them we are serving ourselves as we continually learn as we attend the temple. We are made perfect as we serve them as they become perfect. God's plan is so simple, yet so effective. I have also spent much time relistening to and rereading the conference talks and the one that has really settled into my soul at this time is Elder Andersen's talk about the Music of the Gospel. I feel so grateful that at this time all of my children hear the music of the gospel in their lives and are performing the gospel dance. I know that this is what has brought me joy and happiness and I am so happy to see that same joy and happiness in the lives of all four of my amazing and wonderful children. I hope to see the music of the gospel shared in their homes with my grandchildren and with the people they will have the opportunity to serve in the church. Life can be hard sometimes. The dance steps of the church can be hard sometimes, but it makes it so much more enjoyable to perform those steps as we hear the music of the gospel, nice and loud. I am entering a new stage of my life. I have been offered a job at the district as an instructional coach and I will be a grandma for the first time in September. I hope to share the music of the gospel with the new people I will work with and especially with my posterity. I hope they will always remember grandma RaeAnn loves the gospel of Jesus Christ and danced the dance all the days of her life. I hope they will come to hear the music because I have it turned up REALLY loud in my own life and they want to have the music for themselves.

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About Us

Our family was established on April 23rd 1988. Kevin and RaeAnn were married for time and all eternity in the Jordan River Temple. We have 4 wonderful children. Amberly, Cammie, Jeffrey and Janna have made our family complete. We tolerate a cat named Tiger who joined our family in March of 2000. We are very active Mormons who love Jesus Christ each other and our many friends and family. Have fun getting to know our family better.

Testimony is what we KNOW through the power of the Holy Ghost. Conversion is being TRUE to what we KNOW. --Pres. David Miles

People fall away from the church for the same reason they fall out of bed. They aren't all the way in.

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.

What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.

Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.

In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

‎"We need to teach our daughters to distinguish between a man who flatters her - and a man who compliments her. A man who spends money on her - and a man who invests in her. A man who views her as property - and a man who views her properly. A man who lusts after her - and a man who loves her. A man who believes he is God's gift to women - and a man who remembers a woman was God's gift to man...And then teach our boys to be that kind of a man."

Charity is what we are and faith is how we work. by Kleve Anderson

"Your life is your garden. Your thoughts are the seeds. If your life isn't awesome, you're watering the weeds."

You can never escape the responsibility of your example.

Revealing the truth is like lighting a match. It can either bring light to your life or set your world on fire. (from Being Erica)

"Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school." by Albert Einstein

"If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads but what he rereads." by Francois Mauriac

"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because he would give the best and man will not take it." by George Macdonald

Live Abundantly

The more you give, the more you get... The more you laugh, the less you fret...The more you do unselfishly, the more you live abundantly. The more you love, the more you'll find, that life is good and friends are kind. For only what we give away enriches us from day to day.

Charles R. Swindoll once said, “Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.”

‎"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble"--Helen Keller--

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone, And as we let our own light shine, We unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.

Written by Marianne Williamson as used in Nelson Mandela's Inaugural Speech, 1994

Be not deceived by her defensive posturing, that a woman is not interested in the truest form of love. It is merely the natural consequence of a personal or vicarious hurt done to her soul. --RaeAnn Hurst February 11, 2012